From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 24 20:54:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C18715063 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 20:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA05538; Mon, 24 May 1999 23:54:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199905250354.XAA05538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: SETI@home has teams now! In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Connor at "May 25, 99 12:44:42 pm" To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 23:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Cc: crh@outpost.co.nz, dpilgrim@uswest.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daniel O'Connor wrote, > > On 25-May-99 Craig Harding wrote: > > > running all the time under a load limit, then just lift that limit > > > while I'm not using the machine. > > Have a look at idprio (man idprio), it'll probably do you want. I've > > been meaning to put some basic scripts together to idprio it in the > > morning and un-idprio it at night, but haven't quite got round to it. > > IMHO its not worth the hassle.. > I just edited the startup script to idprio it and left it at that. Is there a reason not to use setiathome's '-nice' switch and just nice it to a low priority? I think that would be good enough for most people. Also, I believe idpro requires root privileges; nice does not. I'd rather not use root when I don't need to. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message